All Power & Water

Interview: Drax squares up to carbon-mitigation challenge
Added: 11 Apr 2016
Pioneering new methods to reduce the nation’s carbon footprint is one of the most critical issues f…

Teesside waste energy plants abandoned
Added: 5 Apr 2016
Development of the Tees Valley 1 (TV1) and Tees Valley 2 (TV2) renewable energy project has been ab…

UK energy production rises
Added: 1 Apr 2016
A report published by the Department of Energy and Climate Change (DECC) shows energy production in…

Hypochlorite dosing with SEEPEX pumps
Added: 29 Mar 2016
SEEPEX has supplied several progressive cavity pumps to Bristol Water as part of a new electro-chlo…

Case study: pumping solution
Added: 29 Mar 2016
Wastewater firm upgrades its sampler system with peristaltic pump.

Hinkley Point C 'will go ahead' says EDF chief
Rob Smith | Added: 23 Mar 2016
EDF Energy chief executive officer Vincent de Rivaz has this morning told the UK energy and climate…

Brewery served £100k fine for polluting UK river
Added: 23 Mar 2016
The Molson Coors Brewery (MCB) in the UK has been fined £100,000 and ordered to pay costs of £31,58…

‘Giant’ battery connects to grid
Added: 20 Mar 2016
A £4 million battery-based energy storage facility has been launched at Willenhall substation near …

Real-time gas detection monitors tackle nuisance odours
Added: 15 Mar 2016
Gas detection specialist a1-cbiss has created new real-time boundary monitors to deal with nuisance…

Npower cuts UK workforce in bid to reverse losses
Added: 9 Mar 2016
Npower has announced plans to slash 2,400 jobs in a two-year turnaround programme designed to rever…

Thames Water fined £380k for polluting stream
Added: 9 Mar 2016
Thames Water has been fined £380,000 for polluting a rural stream in Buckinghamshire over a series …

EDF finance chief quits over Hinkley Point
Added: 7 Mar 2016
French utility EDF has confirmed the resignation of its chief financial officer Thomas Piquemal ami…

'Urgent rethink' on energy storage key to cutting power bills
Added: 3 Mar 2016
A new Carbon Trust report has revealed that the introduction of more efficient energy storage syste…

Didcot power station collapses
Rob Smith | Added: 23 Feb 2016
A major incident has been declared following the partial collapse of a building at Didcot A power s…
Case study: slurry power
Added: 23 Feb 2016
A biogas plant is generating electricity from low-temperature waste heat.

EDF extends the life of four UK nuclear plants
Added: 16 Feb 2016
French energy firm EDF Energy has announced plans to extend the life at four of its nuclear power s…
Nuclear body funds energy project
Added: 1 Feb 2016
The Nuclear Decommissioning Authority (NDA) has contributed £500,000 to Innovate UK’s Energy Game C…

UK ‘facing an electricity crisis’
Added: 26 Jan 2016
A report published by the Institution of Mechanical Engineers (IMechE) suggests the UK is threatene…

Calibration: Field factors
Added: 22 Jan 2016
The case for calibrating equipment in either a workshop or the field is not always black and white,…

DECC asks for industry input on energy regulation
Added: 19 Jan 2016
The Department of Energy and Climate Change (DECC) is calling for industry views on how to ensure r…